There may be other films w the same title; however this shark attack is definitely from the one that just came out :)

@Nathan – Mega Shark was all over the news last year – I mean, c’mon, it stars Debbie Gobson and Lorenzo Lamas ;) At the end of the year, it was ranked above Avatar in the 10 most-viewed trailers of 2009, and was the most downloaded trailer of the year as well.

Anyway, it’s gloriously ridiculous, and if you want to watch it, I think it’s now streaming on NetFlix and such.,

But what I don’t get is how Megashark could see the jet plane coming so fast, from such a distance, and time her mightly leap so perfectly as to snatch the plane with a microsecond of a window. Is it the Megashark’s keen sense of smell? Electrical currents picked up in her lateral line? Eyesight?

sharks hunt by sensing electrical activity around them, thus knowing exactly where things are without needing to see them. Ever heard of a place called the bermuda triangle? Airplanes being hit by”missiles”? Authorities are trying to keep megashark a secret, they won’t for much longer.

The movie actually shows the shark at varying sizes, GREATLY varying sizes. In this scene it is about twice the size of a plane.. In another scene it is about a quarter of the length of the Golden Gate bridge, and can fit its entire mouth around it. That means that in the bridge scene, the shark would actually be about 300 metres long, whereas in this scene it is about 100 metres long (very roughly, but you get the point).

Actually, I think this graphic severely underestimates the considerable skill of Megashark. Cruising altitude of a 747 is approximately 10,000 meters. At that altitude, my back of the envelope calculations show a necessary launch velocity of approximately 1600 km/hr – which is faster then an F-16. Now that’s one talented shark…